Grovia Hybrid Diaper

First, a little bit about our trial set of diapers.  We told the helpful employee at the Diaper Lab the following:

• We want a diaper that is easy for our daycare provider to use during the day.
• We have been using disposable diapers at night because our cloth prefolds give the peanut diaper rash overnight (too much wet cotton against the delicate bum) and would like to investigate cloth options for nighttime. 
• We'd prefer snaps to velcro (our current covers stick to other things in the wash no matter how careful we are to attach all the velcro beforehand).
• We'd prefer one-size diapers to sized diapers. 

She pulled together a trial to suit our requests while throwing in a few things (i.e., a sized diaper) to make sure we were really investigating our options before making a decision.  

The first diaper we tried at home was the Grovia Hybrid diaper.  "Hybrid" diapers allow you to use the same cover (which has a layer of waterproofing) with both disposable inserts and cloth inserts.  This diaper system also allows you to re-use the same cover as long as it wasn't wet/dirty.  The idea of a hybrid diaper is very tempting - it seems to afford the flexibility to cloth diaper when you can and to use disposables when you can't.  What's not to love? We didn't have any disposable inserts in our trial but we did have two of the cloth inserts.

Here, you can see the insert (on the left), which snaps into the cover (on the right).  The insert is composed of two separate parts and is very bulky.  The cover is the "one size" part - you can adjust the rise and the waist with the snaps.

Here's the diaper on the peanut, who is only about 3 months old here but SUPER into standing, especially on her changing table.  That's why she has that look on her face.

Heyyyy!

It looks relatively trim in the photo but was super bulky on.  I also wasn't a huge fan of the snap-in-insert system.  We wouldn't have used the disposable inserts (they are more expensive than disposable diapers and look like giant maxi pads, which is weird) and I just can't picture our daycare provider fishing through a wet and/or poopy diaper to unsnap one insert and snap in another one, so we would have had to buy just as many covers as inserts, sort of defeating the purpose.

The biggest issue with this diaper was, despite all the bulky padding, the peanut managed to pee out of the leg holes every time we used this one.  We tried different snap configurations to no avail.

Price info  (from Amazon):
2 organic cotton soaker pads, $17.95
Snap shell diaper, $16.95
Disposable "biosoaker" inserts, $19.99 for 50 (at www.gro-via.com) - almost 40 cents a diaper!

Though the idea of a "hybrid" diaper is tempting, it just didn't check the boxes we were hoping it would check, namely price, environmental friendliness, daycare-friendliness, and (importantly) NO PEE COMING OUT OF THE LEG HOLES.

We ended up returning the diaper at the end of our trial.

One Grovia product that we are over the moon for, though, is the Magic Stick.  It is a diaper rash cream that is safe to use with cloth diapers (most of the popular brands like Desitin and Butt Paste ruin cloth diapers), smells like a dream, is all-natural, and has prevented diaper rash since we started using it around Thanksgiving.  Most importantly, it's kind of like a giant tube of chapstick, which means you don't have to get cream on your fingers when doing a diaper change.  (Sorry for the uncommonly large photo - I can't resize it for some reason.)